Former ROH Tag Team Champs Receive WWE Tryout, SummerSlam Commercial

By Amish Patel -
June 16, 2011

— Former ROH World Tag Team Champions Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli were on hand for this week’s WWE television tapings in New York and Rhode Island. Both worked out in the ring in front of officials before each show.

Castagnoli signed a developmental contract with WWE in November 2006 but was released a short while later for reasons that have yet to be publicly disclosed.

— WWE has released a commercial ad promoting SummerSlam, which takes place August 14, 2011 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It is branded as “The Biggest Event of the Summer.”

The commercial features The Miz, Chris Masters, John Morrison, Kofi Kingston, Eve Torres, Alicia Fox and The Bella Twins emerging from the ocean and scurrying to a beach house to watch SummerSlam.

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I guess the Kings of Wrestling would fit into the WWE, they’re wrestling is not over the top in any way and the WWE needs good tag teams in a bad way. I would just love to see the Kings stick around in ROH though.

Logan

Bout time. Chris Hero and Claudio are two of the best in the industry. Kings Fuckin Reign Supreme

Appocalypse

Its about time Chris Hero got a break.

Steve

That’s funny because that’s all they’ll be doing….. watching Summerslam from a beach house!

lew

did anyone see austin aries on impact yesterday he was in one of the best matches i seen in tna in a while i bring this because the kings of wrestling reminded me of this

‘The biggest event of the summer’
No doubt it will be the worst event of the summer.
Hope sack rider gets on the card
Wwwyki

Bill

That means Masters won’t get released!

scooter

hard to believe its taken this long for the wwe to pick up on these guys as their both 6’5 both got decent builds and both can actually entertain as well as put on a great match especially chris hero who’s old superhero gimmick was awesome. however to be fair claudio’s probably got the better moveset in terms of the wwe style out the two as I feel a lot of what hero does he does just to show he can do it all which isn’t really what the wwe want. and naturally claudio has the edge of being swiss allowing him to get heat easily by playing the “evil foreigner”

CC

Interesting that the report says that Castagnoli’s release from WWE wasnt disclosed as I remember it being reported (possibly even on here) that the reason he was released was due to visa issues (either he lacked one, it had expired or it was the wrong sort).